<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Community,<br><br></div>A provider of ours is handing off clients VLANs over a fiber interco using QinQ (outer VLAN is for transport on their network and inner VLAN is our end client).<br><br></div>We actually terminate this on a Cisco ME but would like to move that to an MLXe action as MPLS PE and map VLANs into different MPLS instances.<br><br></div>I wanted to confirm the exact stanza based on what I found in NI5.4 config guide :<br><br></div>1/ Activate QinQ on the provider facing port :<br><br>tag-type 9100 ethe X/Y.<br><br></div><div>I found this section in the guide related to this :<br><br><div class=""><a name="1084042">"<i>Special considerations for dual-tagged endpoints</i></a></div><i>
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</i><div class=""><a name="1084045"><i>The TPI</i>D of the outer VLAN tag must be the port’s configured tag type (the default tag type is 0x8100)."</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br></div>2/ Map client VLAN into the different VPLS instances :<br><br><div class=""><a name="1084050">Brocade(config-mpls)#vpls test 10</a></div>
<div class=""><a name="1084054">Brocade(config-mpls-vpls-test10)#vlan X inner-vlan Y</a></div>
<div class=""><a name="1084058">Brocade(config-mpls-vpls-test_10-vlan-X-inner-vlan-Y)#tagged Ethernet 2/1</a></div><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>X being SP transport VLAN (outer VLAN) and Y being clustomer VLAN (inner VLAN).<br><br><br></div><div>Does that sound about right to you ?<br><br></div><div>Thanks for the feedbacks.<br><br></div><div>Best regards.<br clear="all"></div><div><div><div><div><br><br><br>-- <br>Youssef BENGELLOUN-ZAHR<br>
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